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For those interested who are in Munich or plan to travel there until mid/end of October, works from Blek le Rat (like the above one) and other artists can be seen as a part of the Magic City exhibition. The exhibition will move to Stockholm on 1st of November.

I recommend Munich as a fine place to visit. It is packed with fine Universities, Technical Schools, old and new architecture and great beer gardens. My favorite visits are Pinakotheke (Alte Pinakothek, Neue Pinakothek, Pinakothek de Moderne). but these are just the beginning. There's the BMW Museum, Dacheu and much more.

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I looked up Bakunin, Michael. How does the picture pay homage to his political ideology.

I do like the quote:

“While Bakunin rebuked Nechayev upon discovery of his duplicity as well as his amoral politics, he did retain a streak of ruthlessness, as indicated by a 2 June 1870 letter: "Lies, cunning [and] entanglement [are] a necessary and marvelous means for demoralising and destroying the enemy, though certainly not a useful means of obtaining and attracting new friends."[7

It totally makes me think that this is what Putin and Trump have in common.

So, was Steve Bannon Trump’s Anarchist guru?

It certainly seems that Trump and Putin would fit together as Autocratic dictators who excelled at lies and manipulation to control democracies they hate!

Bakunins work and influence is widespread. I do not claim that I know all and I think that looking up his work in a brief glimpse would not be enough to gain even a superficial view of his writings.

The title of the picture references to a quote and from what I could gather it seems to be this one:"I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation."

“While Bakunin rebuked Nechayev upon discovery of his duplicity as well as his amoral politics, he did retain a streak of ruthlessness, as indicated by a 2 June 1870 letter: "Lies, cunning [and] entanglement [are] a necessary and marvelous means for demoralising and destroying the enemy, though certainly not a useful means of obtaining and attracting new friends."

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Michael,

This picture is a lesson in exceptionality. One doesn’t have to face rejection by galleries or get back encouraging turn-down letters from competitions! Here one has to find an available space and fill it with something so exceptional that the next street artist will be in awe and respect it!

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“Art”, to me is the expression in some physical form that at least evokes in its creator the feelings imagined in the artist’s private “Cathedral of the Mind”.

If we also “get it”, fabulous but it’s sheer arrogance to declare that it must have a monetary value.

My latest 6.5 ton sculpture has no “value” attested by some sale at Sotheby’s, but the City installing it permanently by the City Museum of Art and asking for more means a lot to me.

I look at the works you show, “The King is Dead” and “Long Live The King” arexat the very least of equal value to anything of my own I claim is art. I have great deference to street art at it expresses such a devoted thoughtful skilled expression of inner thoughts and executed at no small personal risk!

I value so much you bringing them to us!

When I revisit Munich, I hope to get to see some of them with my own eyes!

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Did you mean to post in “Road Art” which is for graffiti, murals, billboard, oil marks on a wet highway, spilt paint on a sidewalk, arrow signs in a parking garage, stickers on a telegraph pole and the like!

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Did you mean to post in “Road Art” which is for graffiti, murals, billboard, oil marks on a wet highway, spilt paint on a sidewalk, arrow signs in a parking garage, stickers on a telegraph pole and the like!